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Thanks. I do not have any intention to do web scraping. Let's reduce the scope of my request: I want to do two things - 1) Get the schedules of the upcoming (future) matches in most of the popular sports across globe - football, soccer, cricket, tennis etc. How does ESPN or other sources get this? Do they get this information 3 months/6 months in advance from all these sports organizations? Or do they simply have people to enter this data manually in their own system? 2) I want to keep history of who won/lost the particular match and any other interesting tidbits about the match that already took place. So I am not planning on doing any web scraping and neither I plan to offer any live feed API or data. So my question is - how do I accomplish my above stated 2 goals efficiently without doing web scraping? Thanks.


http://www.espn.com/apis/devcenter/docs/calendar.html#using-...

Thats a start

I tried looking for an nba api but i couldnt find one- but i found nba api projects like https://pypi.org/project/nba-api/

I dont know espn gets their historical data but scraping it wouldnt be problematic. I would think the pro sports orgs would have an api for it

Looks like espn has pretty good historical data records and their api has some documentation. Using the espn api might be your best bet here


I think ESPN does not support APIs anymore. http://www.espn.com/apis/devcenter/blog/read/publicretiremen...




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